Plugin: External Status Monitor Interface (V1.3, 24-Jan-2006)

[Wheemer]

Originally Posted by pdavis

Sorry for the long delay. Not sure why I have let this go this long. My intentions were to post the source code so that others could continue to work on SageMon. I also notice that I didn't include any contact info (opps) At any rate, I will pick it back up and see what is going wrong with it.

Cool, keep us updated!

[nielm]

just a FYI, the 'now playing' information may not work with Sage 4.1 (for the same reasons that it doesnt work in the webserver)... I will have to look into it after my holidays...

[jlabrue]

nielm

Have you had a chance to see what changes took place to break the GetStatus functionality in SageTV 4.1.x? I hadn't noticed until I sent Jeff some logs about MVP issues and he mentioned it.


Hate to seem like a nag posting on all your threads. It just happens that you have some really useful plugins and I think I have almost all of them installed!

[danward79]

I have the same issue to. I use this to display info in netremote. Would love to see it working again

[nielm]

Fixed...
uploaded v1.3 which should have support for Sage 4.1+ (shows now playing for Local UI only, no SageExtender support).

Note that the installtion now uses JAR files -- make sure you delete the old directory tree:

net/sf/sageplugins/getstatus

from the SageTV program directory.

[jlabrue]

Sweet, I'll give a try tonight!

[jlabrue]

nielm,

The download link is still pointing to 1.2. I was able to change it in the url to get 1.3. I'll let you know how it works

[nielm]

fixed link -thanks

[jlabrue]

Nielm,

Got it installed and it appears that everything is working! I'll let you know if anything changes

Thanks!

[mightyt]

I had this link saved, but ... Am I missing something or has this plugin dropped off the list of Nielm customizations?? Is its use no longer suggested? Did Nielm drop it? Does it work with Sage 4.1x?

Thanks, T.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by mightyt

I had this link saved, but ... Am I missing something or has this plugin dropped off the list of Nielm customizations?? Is its use no longer suggested? Did Nielm drop it? Does it work with Sage 4.1x?

Thanks, T.

Did you look here? SageTV Community Downloads



Gerry

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Did you look here? SageTV Community Downloads



Gerry

Oh ... Thanks a lot Gerry ... Sometimes gets confusing ... downloads are in so many places ...

• Individual Threads
• The Customizations Sticky (where I usually look stuff to show up)
• The Download Page and even
• Wiki

Interesting thing is the first post on this thread shows v.1.3 and the Download Page shows v.1.2?? But, the download link takes you back to Wiki where 1.3 is anyway??? Oh well ... it's all good ...

Not seeing it in the Sticky, I was wondering if it was abandoned or if it worked with 4.1.x or not.

Thanks, T.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by mightyt

Not seeing it in the Sticky, I was wondering if it was abandoned or if it worked with 4.1.x or not.

I went to see if it hadn't been added to the customization sticky & saw that is is listed there already. Following the link in the sticky led to this exact thread, where the very first post links to the download & states that it was updated for v4.1. I'm not sure what info could be missing about it.

I realize that the customizations sticky is quite long, but there are a lot of things to list there. (If you are wondering why this isn't listed among the import modules for v4: this isn't an import, so you have to look further down for other customizations.)

- Andy

[mightyt]

Originally Posted by Opus4

I went to see if it hadn't been added to the customization sticky & saw that is is listed there already. Following the link in the sticky led to this exact thread, where the very first post links to the download & states that it was updated for v4.1. I'm not sure what info could be missing about it.

I realize that the customizations sticky is quite long, but there are a lot of things to list there. (If you are wondering why this isn't listed among the import modules for v4: this isn't an import, so you have to look further down for other customizations.)

- Andy

You are absolutely right !!! I screwed up ... in "two" ways ... One ... I looked for it with all of Nielms other imports up top and forgot that it was considered external. And two ... the really stupid one is I was really looking for Nielm's CPU, Memory and Hard Drive Monitor! and somehow confused it with his External Status Monitor ...

Sorry for mixing this up, but appreciate the navigation tip ...

Thanks, T.

[Madcoder]

Hi Nielm. I really like the pluggin, and use it to enable some LCDs already. It would be VERY VERY helpful if you could add just too more bits of data to do some other things too!

Additional data needed:
1. Currently active Sage screen. So this would indicate, Main Menu, My TV, etc., whatever the active screen name is. This COULD be shown on an LCD, but MORE importantly at least for me is that I can tell when someone has gone "back" to the main menu, and thus invoke another application (I am integrating a few Media products here).

2. Currently playing - from what encoder/tuner!!! This is less important than number 1, but still a good idea for the following reason. I use DVB encoders, that each have a MyTheatre interface. If I send the correct Sendmessage to MyTheatre, it will pop up the Teletext screen, and I can have Teletext from within Sage (ok, not from INSIDE Sage, but it looks like it to the end user). The problem is that I have multiple tuners and multiple Sage instances, so I need to activate Teletext for the correct encoder/tuner. To do this, I need to know which tuner is currently being shown/played, since both of my tuners might actually be active (one tuning, one watching, etc.) and teletext pages are channel specific from the providers. Since your plugin shows other information about what is playing, I was hoping you could also fish out the associated encoder/tuner data.

I hope I gave good enough descriptions of what I am trying to do to entice you to help me! Thanks in advance.

[FormatC:]

Heres is the data watching News 12 CT
now_playing_type: tv
now_playing_show: News 12 Connecticut
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel: 12 - N12CT
now_playing_starttime: 1160132400000
now_playing_endtime: 1160136000000
now_playing_currpos: 1160134618069
now_playing_state: play
num_recording_devs: 1
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_1_show: News 12 Connecticut
recording_1_episode:
recording_1_chan: 12 - N12CT
recording_1_starttime: 1160132400000
recording_1_endtime: 1160136000000

And Here is the data recording the same channel

now_playing_type: nothing
now_playing_show:
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel:
now_playing_starttime:
now_playing_endtime:
now_playing_currpos:
now_playing_state: stopped
num_recording_devs: 1
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_1_show: News 12 Connecticut
recording_1_episode:
recording_1_chan: 12 - N12CT
recording_1_starttime: 1160132400000
recording_1_endtime: 1160136000000

Is there anyway to get the "now_playing_state: stopped" To say recording ? or something and get my cursor bar back? I'm using Sage TV Version 5.0.4 and Windows XP Pro

[elaw]

Is anyone using the plugin yet with V6? I just installed it on my V6 system and can't get any info. I can connect via telnet, and the plugin responds, but it never indicates anything is playing, whether I'm watching live TV, recorded TV, or an imported file.

Interestingly, it *does* show that something is recording when I watch live TV.

[Jere_Jones]

Originally Posted by elaw

Is anyone using the plugin yet with V6? I just installed it on my V6 system and can't get any info. I can connect via telnet, and the plugin responds, but it never indicates anything is playing, whether I'm watching live TV, recorded TV, or an imported file.

Interestingly, it *does* show that something is recording when I watch live TV.

This is probably caused by the wrong "instance" of sage running the plugin.

Think of it like this: There is the server and the client. The server doesn't know what the clients are watching so it can't report a now playing for them. If you aren't running SageTV as a service then the client and server are the same, but if you are then they aren't and there's your problem. (Did that make sense?)

Solution: Remove the "load at startup" settings from Sage.properties and put it in SageClient.properties.

Jere

[elaw]

Originally Posted by Jere_Jones

Solution: Remove the "load at startup" settings from Sage.properties and put it in SageClient.properties.
Jere

You're right - at first I had it in sage.properties then moved it to sageclient.properties. But now that I think about it, I may not have cycled the sage service afterward. I'll give that a try and report the results!

[elaw]

Jere,

You hit the nail right on the head!

I had forgotten that editing sage.properties while the service is running is a no-no, basically my changes did not get saved and the status monitor was still running attached to the service.

In the process of fixing it I had an interesting idea which might be useful for your interface (and other things?). What I did is left the status monitor in sage.properties but set the binding port to 20002. So now I've got the status monitor running twice - once attached to the service which could be used to monitor recording even if the client isn't running. The other is attached to the client, which can be used to monitor what is being watched.